LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Influence of sediments and tungsten traces on the skeletal structure of Pseudodiploria: a reef building scleractinian coral from the Veracruz Reef System National Park, Mexico

Colín-García, Norberto A; Campos, Jorge E; T ello-Musi Jose Luis, Jose L; Arias-González, Jesús E.

Rev. biol. trop; 64 (3), 2016

Abstract:Coral reefs are under intense conditions of stress caused by the anthropogenic activities in coastal areas and the increase of human population. Water effluents from urban and industrial areas carry large amounts of sediments and pollutants affecting corals populations, inducing bioerosion, incr...

Antozoos/anatomía & histología, Antozoos/química, Arrecifes de Coral, Monitoreo del Ambiente, México, Microscopía Electrónica de Rastreo, Valores de Referencia, Agua de Mar/química, Espectrometría por Rayos X, Tungsteno/análisis, Contaminantes Químicos del Agua/química

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Preliminary results with a torsion microbalance indicate that carbon dioxide and exposed carbonic anhydrase in the organic matrix are the basis of calcification on the skeleton surface of living corals

Sandeman, Ian M.

Rev. biol. trop; 60 (supl.1), 2012

Ocean acidification is altering the calcification of corals, but the mechanism is still unclear. To explore what controls calcification, small pieces from the edges of thin plates of Agaricia agaricites were suspended from a torsion microbalance into gently stirred, temperaturecontrolled, seawater. Net c...

Anhidrasas Carbónicas/análisis, Dióxido de Carbono/análisis, Antozoos/química, Arrecifes de Coral, Calcificación Fisiológica, Océanos y Mares, Cambio Climático

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Relationship between anthropogenic impacts and bleaching-associated tissue mortality of corals in Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles)

Nagelkerken, I.

Rev. biol. trop; 54 (supl.3), 2006

Chronic anthropogenic impacts can have a negative effect on coral health and on coral energy budgets needed for regeneration of lesions. I therefore hypothesise that during massive bleaching events, the degree of corals showing bleaching-related tissue mortality is higher in areas subject to chronic anth...

Efectos Antropogénicos, Blanqueamiento de los Corales/análisis, Curazao, Antozoos/química

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